In December 2013, I was lucky enough to receive my order of the all-new Apple Mac Pro.

You see, videos have become an important part of content and material on FPPad, and the 2009 iMac I was using was beginning to show its age.

It didn’t help that I recently stepped up to weekly production of FPPad Bits and Bytes episodes, meaning that I was quickly taxing the limited memory and hard drive space of the iMac.

Speed, and then some

So why did I buy the Mac Pro?

In a word, speed.

Each episode of FPPad Bits and Bytes requires several hours of editing in post production. My editing software of choice is Apple’s Final Cut Pro X.

Episodes feature a lot of cut-away video, pop-up images, jammin’ music, and four boxes of simultaneous video in the credits. All of that resulted in final video rendering times of 45 to 60 minutes on the old computer.

How long does it take the Mac Pro to render an episode?

Three.

Yes, three minutes!

Mac Pro Configuration

Here is the complete configuration of my Mac Pro and its accessories shown in the video above.